Can guide me step by step how to set up zoom (or any other free video
conferencing facility) that I can connect my Win10 laptop (it's Chrome &
IE has a proxy setting which only permits me to browse Intranets only)
with external party (auditor actually)?    Heard that zoom will time out
(I don't mind reconnecting) after 40mins but my video conf session is
2 hrs.

I do have portable browsers (eg: Maxthon & Falkon) that enables me
to browse Internet though so this one can be used for zoom or any
other free facility if needed.

Meeting room & my laptop use HDMI.

Now that Skype no longer allows a customized voicemail greeting, I'm looking for an alternative.

I have a Skype Number that I'll port over to the new system, so it needs to accept incoming calls on that number. Other than that all I really care about is voicemail. Skype cost me about $100 a year for the number + my plan, and I'd sure like to stick around that price range.

Any ideas?

Hi experts,

We were using a server without VMs with a Mainpine Faxboard. This more than handled out incoming and outgoing faxes. We moved to Windows Server 2016 Standard with Hyper-V and two VMs. Configuration of a fax board is not practical.

I have been using a Canon MFC as my fax server. It works OK, but first, it just isn't as efficient as a high-end fax server; and it only has one line. I know that other MFCs like the ImageRunner come with two lines, but then I am paying for yet another fax machine.

I have been researching standalone fax server appliances, and I have only come up with one brand: https://www.cimfax.com/products_T5.asp. The Cimfax Professional two-line fax server is the lowest in its lineup that has two lines and a 33.6 fax modem. I have found it for $600+, although it is listed on their site at a little bit more.

My question to the experts is do you have any other recommendations for a fax appliance? And, are you familiar with the Cimfax line of fax servers?

Thank you.

Bert

PS I do have two separate fax lines, and I am not interested in any cloud or internet faxing solutions.

The user has moved into a new apartment.  They brought their Panasonic wireless home phone system, with a base station and two satellite phones with them.  

They would like to just give everybody they know only their cell phone number.  They need an adapter that would transfer all the cell phone calls to their Panasonic system.  This way they have the convenience of the Panasonic stations, and don't have to carry around a cell phone all day.

What is a good unit that will do this?

Thanks

Say, the following device :  D-Link 3G FLLA Wi-Fi Model DWR-720/PW   takes a SIM card and allows one to mkake telephone calls from the built-in handset. It also offers wifi to the user. We are loking for a device with similar functionality as described, except that it does not need a handset but rather a FXO Port allowing one to connect in a regular POTS.
The important features are the Wifi for the end user and the ability to plug in a POTS. Cost is a factor and availability in South Africa is preferable. Kindly suggest devices ofering this functionality.
PS.  This device is being used as a replacemenent to a traditional analog telephone

We have a yealink IP SIP phone that needs to connect from the outside.  We have set up the phone and tested it internally and it's good so we moved it externally.  

In the phone, we edited the account and put in the public IP of our router (a Sonicwall NSA4600) and waited for the phone to register.  It fails to register.

I've checked the ports and I DO have the right ports open on the Sonicwall but I've also read a lot of posts about people having trouble with SW and SIP phones.  So, after reading, I have made the changes suggested on the posts I've read and still no joy.  

I'm using https://www.yougetsignal.com/ to test 5060 and it reports that it's closed.

Does anyone have any insight into how to make the SW work well with the SIP phone?

PS:  An alternate port scanning tool tells me the port is filtered.  So, I'm looking up how to turn filtering off in the sonicwall for this service.

Thanks

I have many voicemails that I transferred from my Android phone Samsung Galaxy Note 4 with a file extension .smil. that I can not listen to . Can you advise me on what to use in order to listen to them? Also, why does the voice mail gets recorded in this file extension not other ones like .avi or .mp3?  Thank you

Team ,
i have a design clarification ,where i have 2 - 3 sites, where sites are connected by MPLS link . They have video conferencing units installed but client is complaining of Jitter and  Latency on certain ocassions.

Now my question, in design perspective , should VC's be connected through ISDN than IP or is IP preferred with dedicated bandwidth for VC .

Regards,
Sid

Hi, we have just had Avaya IP Office and Voicemail Pro installed on a Hyper-V Virtual Server (A Dell Poweredge R7040 with 32GB RAM Intel Xeon Silver 4109T 2Ghz (2 Processors). The Avaya virtual server has been running fine since Christmas but over Easter it crashed. The telecoms guys that support it say that for 1-100 users it should be at least a 4 Ghz Processor (we have 75 users) and 2-3 cores.

Now, I can shut it down tonight and give it an extra processor, but would we really need to upgrade the processors to faster ones? It's a fairly new server and I thought that the Xeon Silver 4109T although low Ghz are pretty good? Thanks for the help.

This is (hopefully) a dirt-simple question for the Avaya IP Office gurus, but over 30 minutes of Google searching has yielded no results for me.

I have an existing Voicemail Pro module ("VM:Support") that works perfectly, and I know how to redirect external incoming calls to the module, but I need to create a single extension (x5555) that points directly to the module.  How is this done on an IP Office 500 / Voicemail Pro system?

I have two iPhone XR’s I believe. One was stolen and it was my business line. Can I still forward calls from it to my personal phone without actually having phone in hand. I have sprint as carrier.

Hi there,

I'm looking for a solution to make a 3 way voice call between 3 sites and hang 5 lines off each of those sites.

Two of the sites have 1 PSTN line only and one site has two PSTN lines, and each location would like 5 POTS/physical handsets to be able to use at any given time (not cell phones).

Site A - 1 PSTN
Site B - 1 PSTN
Site C - 2 PSTN

Each location also has IP connectivity between the 3 sites but it is setup like a WAN so is a closed network and there is no internet breakout. Therefore no hosted solutions can be used.

So far this says simple PaBX either traditional or IP based.

Each site can call out which is fine but there maybe times that each of the sites need to be on the same call together and have more than one handset from each site join a call.

The bit that I'm not clear on is if each of the sites want to have a 3 way call between them and have each of the 5 local lines connect into the same call. Would the easiest way to do this be simply have a PaBX system on each of the 3 sites and have two off the sites (A and B) with 1 PaBx dial in to the site with the 2 PSTN sites (Site C). Then have the PaBX on site C merge the calls?

This seems a little clunky, is there a better way to do this? Is there an VOIP/SIP solution that would work better?

Trying to keep this uncomplicated and keep margin for error to a minimum so simple PaBX solution was my initial thought. If this is the best solution, does any one have any …